> Hi,
>
> After formatting my hard drive, I seem to have lost the icon for "wireless
> internet
> connection " in the Network connections section (of the control panel).
> I have an HP laptop with a built in wireless connection and had a home
> wireless
> network set up for the past 1 year. I just formatted my hard drive today and
> now
> I am not able to see this icon and so am not able to connect wirelessly to
> the router.
>
> Please help..Thanks,
>
> Bharath

"Nipi" <yame***@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> If you can't see the icon at all in "Network Connections" (not only is
> says that it's disabled), then most probably the device driver of your
> wireless is not installed, you should install it from the drivers CD
> which comes with the laptop.
> Open control panel>system>hardware>device manager, and see if in the
> list there is an item with a yellow? mark next to it
>
> On Dec 26, 10:11 am, enjoys999 <enjoys***@discussions.microsoft.com>
> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> After formatting my hard drive, I seem to have lost the icon for
>> "wireless
>> internet
>> connection " in the Network connections section (of the control panel).
>> I have an HP laptop with a built in wireless connection and had a home
>> wireless
>> network set up for the past 1 year. I just formatted my hard drive today
>> and
>> now
>> I am not able to see this icon and so am not able to connect wirelessly
>> to
>> the router.
>>
>> Please help..Thanks,
>>
>> Bharath
>